Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Morehead City, NC.

The demand for addiction treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular attention to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women because cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome have increased from 7 cases per 1,000 admissions to neonatal intensive care units in 2004 to 27 cases per 1,000 admissions in 2013. Rehab facilities offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Morehead City offer broad range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol possible, ensure opioid addicted mothers the transformation into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and obtain the rehabilitation they need to remain clean and sober while postpartum.

States which offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services offered at such rehabilitation programs might include group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education and training in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which bring on their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this position normally need comprehensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer residential and inpatient care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient therapy services available to them including healthcare services.

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